Abstract

Considering the critical issues of remote communication, this study proposes an idea of remote individuals’ virtual connection through augmented tele-presence systems called ARM-COMS (ARm-supported eMbodied COmmunication Monitor System). Several ideas of robot-based remote communication systems have been proposed to challenge the telepresence issue of remote participants. However, it does not cover the issue of relationship. An idea of robotic arm-typed system and/or an idea of anthropomorphization draw researchers’ attentions to challenge the lack of relationship with remote participants. However, usage of the human body movement of a remote person as a non-verbal message, or cyber-physical media in remote communication is still an open issue. Under these circumstances, this paper describes the system configuration of ARM-COMS based on the proposed idea and discusses the feasibility of the idea using the experimental observations.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP16K00274. The author would like to acknowledge all members of Collaborative Engineering Labs at Tokushima University, and Center for Technical Support of Tokushima University, for their cooperation to conduct the experiments.

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